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Month: April 2017

TeamScreen – general progress update #2

TeamScreen – general progress update #2

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Last three post were about creating a general architecture for TeamScreen application – handling views, settings, and plugins itself. Today’s post will be about polishing it. First screens showing how TeamScreen looks now: TeamCity plugin: JIRA plugin: Settings screen with TeamCity tab: In my opinion is definitely an improvement from how it looked before. I changed the bootstrap theme to use something more darkly by using SuperHero theme from Bootswatch site. Other minor things regarding UI: Created favicon using great generator I…

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Plugin architecture with ASP.NET Core and Autofac

Plugin architecture with ASP.NET Core and Autofac

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The plugin architecture is definitely the trickiest part of TeamScreen yet. I encountered many problems during its creation and needed to compromise on few things. Treat this article more like proof of concept rather than the fully-mature solution – it works, but I believe it could be done better. If you have better idea, please share it in comments – I’m always open to constructive feedback 🙂 The requirements for the architecture are – the plugin itself is packed in a DLL file…

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Creating mechanism to save dynamic settings locally with ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core and SQLite

Creating mechanism to save dynamic settings locally with ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core and SQLite

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Next step in TeamScreen development is settings screen. In time I plan to abandon solution with providing credentials to 3rd party services using configuration files and moved them to more user-friendly UI. In today’s post, I’ll start from saving only one setting – an interval between plugin change. Saving other settings will come after the creation of plugin architecture. The first thing we need to do is to remove existing reference to Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer – it’s added by default when creating…

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Using ASP.NET Core and Vue.js to dynamically switch content of site

Using ASP.NET Core and Vue.js to dynamically switch content of site

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I debated a long time with myself on whether or not I really need some kind of javascript library for TeamScreen. In the end, I decided, that in fact, I do need it – just because the code will be simpler. Keep in mind that TeamScreen it’s still a pretty much static website, that’s why I won’t be using stuff like Webpack or more and more popular React. TeamScreen is not an application that needs those kinds of sophisticated JavaScript libraries….

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My opinion on JavaScript

My opinion on JavaScript

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Javascript had humble beginnings – initial version was written in only ten days and for a whole lot of time it was treated as a second level citizen in the programming world, capable of writing simple stuff like a guest book and that’s all. For years when you wanted to create a rich web application, you used Flash or less often Java and Silverlight applets. I remember ten years ago many people hated JavaScript and didn’t want to have contact…

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TeamScreen – general progress update

TeamScreen – general progress update

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I though it’ll be easier. I can say, that a have a lot of external stuff that needs to be done and I don’t spend as much time as I think I should on each post – nevertheless, these are just excuses. I’m stumbling, but I’m still moving forward 🙂 Today’s post will be about introducing some order into project – some general refactoring, better UI and some features that should have been implemented before – stuff, that’ll make this project prettier…

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